Friends of Huntly Park

We are a group of local people who want to protect Huntly Playing Fields and woodland in Giffnock 😃🌳 🚲 🦔 ⚽️ 🐶 🌷🍂🐿

[Friends of Huntly Park @HuntlyFriends]

💚We will be installing a plaque in conjunction with @EastRenCouncil in the bottom part of #HuntlyPark to celebrate @FieldsInTrust status that was officially announced in 2023 so we have updated our Friends of Huntly Park Timeline at the link below
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https://t.co/n5FkbCEISK

[Friends of Huntly Park @HuntlyFriends]

Friends Of Huntly Park had a historic day on 1 Mar 2025 as we unveiled our new signage celebrating our Fields In Trust safeguarding status! This achievement is a result of our communities long-standing campaign since 2017 supported by our local councillors 🎉🌳💚 🌈

[Braidbar Primary School & Nursery Class @BraidbarPS]

🌳🍃 Tree planting at our local Huntley Park with The Conservation Volunteers. We learned about different trees and planted lots of trees which contributes to our local biodiversity. We can’t wait to watch them grow! @TCVtweets @EastRenCouncil @KSBScotland @HuntlyFriends

[Friends of Huntly Park @HuntlyFriends]

FoHP supported a GCU dissertation on greenspace & health & wellbeing that concluded ‘community engagement within greenspaces bring a multitude of benefits and government and council engagement with communities could substantially improve the use of greenspaces throughout the UK.’

[Friends of Huntly Park @HuntlyFriends]

🐦 Look out for our new nesting boxes at #HuntlyPark

🌳 Thanks to @particksparrow1 for making these for us & the local residents who helped install them

[Friends of Huntly Park @HuntlyFriends]

We are pleased to report that @EastRenCouncil have received confirmation of @FieldsInTrust protection for the lower fields and woods of #HuntlyPark #Giffnock This is the result of years of community activism and support for this valued local greenspace #HuntlyFriends 🌳 🌈 💚

[Barrhead News @barrheadnews]

Giffnock: Fields in Trust status extended for Huntly Park https://t.co/sbEQcYcBmA

[Braidbar Primary School & Nursery Class @BraidbarPS]

Today, P4&5 took their completed bird shelters back to Huntley Park. They had a great time exploring the woods and finding a safe space for their houses to take shelter. 🐦 @HuntlyFriends @KSBScotland

[Public Health Scotland @P_H_S_Official]

Julie Procter, CEO of @greenspacescot and Chair of the Environment and Spaces for Public Health Partnership Group, explores our use of greenspace during the pandemic and implications for health and wellbeing in this guest blog: ▶️ https://t.co/URMNBUNErA

[Giffnock Nursery @GiffnockNursery]

Fantastic climbing and swinging skills today everyone #confidentindividuals #riskyplay @HuntlyFriends @giffnockprimary

[Friends of Huntly Park @HuntlyFriends]

@BraidbarPS @ksteven59 @UNHumanRights @GlobalGoalsUN @EastRenCouncil Thank you. Our email is [email protected]

[Friends of Huntly Park @HuntlyFriends]

Wonderful to see #HuntlyPark so busy today with families doing the #HuntlyFriends Easter Egg trail, lots of other big groups of family & friends having some holiday weekend fun and the new benches funded by The Faskin Group & @EastRenCouncil being well used 🌈 🐣 🌳

[Friends of Huntly Park @HuntlyFriends]

@philippa_manley Thanks FoHP trail all wooden eggs spoons 😊

[Friends of Huntly Park @HuntlyFriends]

EASTER EGG HUNTly 2-4pm @ Huntly Park today (Sat 16th) 🐣

[Friends of Huntly Park @HuntlyFriends]

Get voting folks 🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲

[Giffnock PS @giffnockprimary]

Message from our Eco Committee: we would like to ask our friends, family and local community to help us name the new woodland area we planted earlier this term. Our classes voted for our top 3 names that the pupils came up with and you can vote in the poll below. @HuntlyFriends

[Giffnock Nursery @GiffnockNursery]

We found signs of Spring this morning on the way to Huntly Park. #naturedetectives @HuntlyFriends

[Braidbar Parent Council @BraidbarPC]

Was really good to hear from Miss Hardie today about the benefits of outdoor play @BraidbarPS - including how lucky we are with Huntly park on our doorstep, and the secret garden to use too!

[Friends of Huntly Park @HuntlyFriends]

💚🌳 Have a look at our updated Friends of Huntly Park Timeline to see what we have been up to. Thanks to everyone who has supported us ❤️🌈#huntlyfriends #huntlypark #giffnock #eastren #environment #outdoorfun #healthandwellbeing #community #cop26glasgow

https://t.co/hT1IAPBBpC

[Friends of Huntly Park @HuntlyFriends]

Bird feed at the entrance to the woods at Huntly Park for you to take home to your garden for the #RSPBBiggardenBirdwatch 🐦

[Friends of Huntly Park @HuntlyFriends]

Join Friends of Huntly Park and take part in the #RSPBBigGardenBirdWatch 2022 in your local park next weekend. We would love to hear what birds our #HuntlyFriends spot on Friday, Saturday or Sunday @GiffnockNursery @BraidbarPS @giffnockprimary @PrimaryPlayCare #CitizenScience 🐦

[Friends of Huntly Park @HuntlyFriends]

@GiffnockNursery Most are hard to spot hung on trees but we left some on the trunk too.

[Friends of Huntly Park @HuntlyFriends]

@GiffnockNursery It was a gorgeous day today. Hope the snacks weren’t the ones left in the woods for the birds!